Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far East and Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev gained scandalous fame thanks to the services of the shaman “Nicholas with the bells.” Trutnev trusted the psychic so much that he could advise him to his companion, billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who emigrated from Russia. In addition to other tasks, “Nikolai with the bells” tried to damage Rybolovlev’s wife, who was trying to sue for family property during the divorce. Experts suspect that Trutnev is the shadow owner of these assets. Both the plenipotentiary and the oligarch still sincerely believe in the magical talent of the shaman.
An important source of informal income for Yuri Trutnev is the Alrosa diamond corporation, which he supervises. The gem control center, which makes Trutnev richer every day, is located in a white three-story building on the northern outskirts of Moscow at 12 Smolnaya Street. The Art Nouveau building looks like a large Soviet cultural center. You can only get inside with a special pass. The main entrance leads into a spacious hall, in the center of which there are shelves with jewelry, and around the perimeter there are small offices for viewing jewelry. The second floor is a production area with seven-meter ceilings: diamonds are cut here.
In Soviet times, the building on Smolnaya housed the production of the Moscow cutting plant "Crystal", and now the premises belong to OJSC "Almazny Mir" (52.37% belongs to the Federal Property Management Agency, the rest to Alrosa and several minority shareholders). In 2002, Gokhran, the Central Excise Customs, the Assay Office and the customs broker TBSS moved under the roof of the Diamond World. Until recently, it was possible to register the import and export of all types of precious stones and metals and pass state control only here.
In September 2016, another special post was opened - in the Far East. “Vladivostok fits more logically into the structure of trade relations between Yakutia (Alrosa’s mining center) and China than, for example, Antwerp,” Trutnev said in September 2016 at the opening of the diamond exchange in Vladivostok. Forbes sources at Alrosa are confident that Trutnev has the “highest influence” on the company. Every Monday, Alrosa President Andrei Zharkov, who took office in April 2015, reports to Trutnev on the state of affairs.
For Trutnev and Zharkov, 2016 was eventful: a diamond center opened in Vladivostok, a 10.9% stake was privatized, the export duty on diamonds was abolished, and joint projects were being prepared in Africa.
Brokerage rollback frequency
The idea of developing a diamond cluster in Primorye is attributed to Trutnev. But the TBSS project is being handled by the same customs broker that processes diamonds at Smolnaya; it is he who owns Eurasian Diamond Center LLC. The company will lease space to residents of the cluster, engage in transportation, customs clearance and storage of valuable cargo, explained Evgeniy Sachkov, general director of the Eurasian Diamond Center.
Almost the entire export flow of diamonds passes through TBSS. Historically, Alrosa, the largest diamond exporter, exclusively cooperates with TBSS. TBSS's revenue for 2015 amounted to 1.18 billion rubles, net profit - 405 million rubles.
TBSS was founded in the 1990s by people from the state special communications, the abbreviation in the company’s name stands for “Customs Broker of Special Communications,” said participants in the diamond and logistics markets. The co-founder of TBSS in 2002 was Mikhail Poletaev, whose full namesake in the late 1990s worked as the first deputy head of the Main Center for Special Communications (GCSC), and in 2007 he was acting. O. Head of the State Center for Social Sciences. The current main owner of TBSS, Sergei Khiryakov, also comes from special communications, say two of his acquaintances. In 1999, the Yakut news agency YASIA called Sergei Khiryakov deputy head of the State Center for International Relations and Customs Operations. How did his company manage to virtually monopolize the processing of diamond exports?
TBSS fulfills its function, testifies one of the diamond market participants: “On the same day that the goods leave (to TBSS), I receive documents.” TBSS charges about $2,500 per $1 million of item cost (0.25%). TBSS's competitive advantage comes from its registration in the Diamond World. State control procedures actually take place on the territory of TBSS, so valuables are necessarily placed in the broker’s warehouses.
A broker can influence the time of cargo clearance and delay it if this cargo is carried by a competitor, complains a manager involved in the transportation of jewelry. There is no alternative to TBSS, because its warehouse is the only place where controllers of Gokhran, headed by Andrei Yurin, are present, explains one of the broker’s competitors. All over the world, global jewelry carriers act as customs brokers: Brink’s, Malca-Amit, Ferrari. TBSS only deals with customs clearance and engages third-party companies for transportation. “This is an outright farce,” says Oleg Khanukaev, president of the African Mining Company (AMC) diamond mining holding.
This approach is consistent with world practice, Andrey Yurin is not ashamed. The main owner of TBSS Khiryakov is well acquainted with Yurin’s first deputy, Andrey Kutepov. He oversees customs at Gokhran.
“Diamond World” became the prototype of the diamond center in Vladivostok, says an Alrosa representative. For the Ministry of Finance, the appearance of TBSS at the special post in Vladivostok came as a surprise. “We did not take part in making this decision,” says Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev. TBSS and Alrosa agreed on this after a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Trutnev, the press service of the diamond monopoly responded.
Launders diamonds through Leviev
The creation of a diamond cluster in Vladivostok caused a lot of noise and allowed Alrosa to lobby for changes in legislation.” By the time the second special post for customs clearance of diamond exports was opened, the Russian authorities had lifted restrictions on the export of large diamonds and, in agreement with the WTO, canceled the export duty. “The speed with which decisions are made is amazing,” admits one of the market participants. Exporting diamonds has become much easier.
“Our goal is to increase direct sales to China and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region by at least two to three times,” says Alrosa President Andrey Zharkov. In 2015, sales to China and India brought Alrosa 44 billion rubles, or 20% of revenue, according to the company’s IFRS. Legislative initiatives will allow Alrosa to increase diamond exports by 20–25%, or approximately $1 billion.
Almost 70% of the world diamond market is occupied by Indian manufacturers. They often sell cut stones 20–25% cheaper than the market, says Maxim Shkadov, general director of the Smolensk Kristall plant: “They need cash to close the loan and get the next one. Otherwise they face bankruptcy.” And the first resident of the diamond cluster in Vladivostok was the Indian cutting company Shree Ramkrishna Export Private. The Indian group KGK Diamonds announced plans to invest up to $8 million in a new production facility in Vladivostok.
Foreigners organize processing in Russia only for preferential access to raw materials. KGK has already asked Alrosa to conclude a five-year contract (currently a maximum of three years) and to increase the volume of raw materials sold. The group annually purchases $200 million worth of diamonds from Alrosa. The list of Alrosa’s long-term clients includes three companies of the KGK group. Also widely represented among Alrosa’s clients are the structures of the Israeli billionaire and Trutnev’s longtime acquaintance, Lev Leviev. From the archives of the Ruspres agency it follows that Leviev was suspected of diamond smuggling.
In 2016, Leviev, with a fortune of $1 billion, entered the Forbes world ranking and took 15th place on the Israeli list. On the website of LLD Diamonds, which manages Leviev’s diamond projects, the billionaire is called the “diamond king”, and the company itself is the world’s largest private diamond producer. The company also points out that Leviev “made a name for himself by ousting the De Beers diamond cartel by independently striking deals with diamond-producing countries such as Russia and Angola.”
It was diamonds that brought Leviev together with Yuri Trutnev. They knew each other well since the mid-1990s, when Trutnev, as the mayor of Perm, visited Leviev’s production in Israel, says former governor of the Perm region (now Perm region) Gennady Igumnov. This official covered Rybolovlev’s (actually Trutnev and Rybolovlev’s) business from the interest of law enforcement agencies. Trutnev accompanied Igumnov on that trip. Perm officials and Leviev agreed to create the Kama-Crystal cutting enterprise, which later became a monopolist in cutting Perm diamonds - close in quality to Namibian diamonds, Igumnov claims. And when Trutnev took the governor’s chair, Leviev also gained control over the Perm miner Uralalmaz. In 2013, Uralalmaz ran out of reserves and went bankrupt. Kama-Crystal was liquidated in 2014.
After Trutnev became the curator of Alrosa, Leviev’s business on the Russian diamond market went uphill. In 2014, Alrosa’s list of long-term clients included only one billionaire’s structure - the Moscow cutter Ruiz Diamonds. A year later, in addition to Ruiz, the list included LLD Diamonds and the Yakut Tunalgy LLC, affiliated with Leviev. In addition, in October 2015, UralTransService LLC won the auction for the development of a diamond deposit in the Perm region with total reserves of more than 1 million carats. Until August 2013, the company belonged to Uralalmaz, and then went to the Moscow-based AV-Invest. Its owner and general director, Mikhail Medvedev, heads the Ruiz Leviev Group of Companies and is on the board of directors of his Moscow Jewelry Factory. In addition, AV-Invest is registered at the same address as the Ruiz Group of Companies, and the telephone numbers are the same.
Zharkov confirmed that three Leviev companies are now among Alrosa’s long-term clients. At the same time, he noted that LLD has been a long-term client since 2012, and Tunalgy is a long-time client of Alrosa for one-time transactions. According to Zharkov, Alrosa “is trying to sell no more than $20 million per month to one person.” Each of Leviev’s two Russian enterprises purchases $2–3 million worth of diamonds from Alrosa per month, he notes. It turns out that the structures of the Israeli “wallet” of Yuri Trutnev may have access to Alrosa diamonds worth approximately $300 million per year.
At the beginning of 2014, Alrosa bought 11 thousand square meters for $91.5 million. m in the Aquamarine complex on Ozerkovskaya embankment near AFI Development. This development company belongs to Leviev. In fact, the residential apartments had to be converted into an office, an Alrosa employee complains. Almost 2 billion rubles were spent on repairs, as follows from government procurement data.
Through the diamond center in Vladivostok, Trutnev opened up another route for Leviev to Alrosa’s raw materials. LLD Diamonds became the largest buyer at the first diamond exchange auction, buying almost half of the diamonds. Auctions at the site of the Eurasian Diamond Center will become regular, Zharkov said.
Suleiman's acquaintances
“If no measures are taken, we will go to Africa after 2021,” Alrosa Vice President Rinat Gizatulin stunned the participants of the Geological Exploration 2016 forum, held in September. There, the cost of geological exploration is 14 times cheaper than in Russia, he explained. Alrosa President Andrei Zharkov rushed to establish ties with Africa almost immediately after his appointment. Just two months later, he already met with Manuel Vicente, vice president of Angola, where Alrosa is involved in several projects. Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has long-standing ties with the USSR and Russia. His daughter Isabel dos Santos, born of a Russian wife, owns assets worth $3 billion.
An entire team from the gold mining company Polyus Gold flew to Angola with Zharkov, says a source close to Alrosa shareholders. The controlling stake in Polyus Gold belongs to Said Kerimov, the son of businessman Suleiman Kerimov.
The day after Zharkov’s meeting with Vicente, the Angolan press reported that Alrosa planned large-scale investments in the country, in particular in the project to develop the Luaxe diamond mine with a total value of $1 billion. Alrosa could receive up to 30% in the project and claims reserves of up to 350 million carats. The company's current reserves are estimated at 0.66–1 billion carats of diamonds.
Kerimov has been interested in Alrosa since 2011. Then the government was considering the issue of complete privatization of the company, and Kerimov intended to buy it out. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich works in the Russian government. His wife Zumrud Rustamova received large sums from Suleiman Kerimov and at the same time represented the interests of the state in Alrosa.
A friend of the Rustamov-Dvorkovich family had serious ambitions, a federal official claims: “He didn’t just want to compete with De Beers and Anglo American, he had a coherent concept of how Russia could dominate the world diamond market.” Kerimov enlisted the support of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, but the deal fell through. The head of Yakutia, Yegor Borisov, said that he was against the full privatization of Alrosa and appealed personally to Putin. The head of the Ministry of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, also drew the president’s attention to the low valuation of Alrosa (about $9 billion). Kudrin was also involved in Alrosa; the corporation’s funds were transferred to the structures of Kudrin’s friends among the leaders of St. Petersburg criminal groups.
As a result, only 16% of the company was put up for sale. Kerimov lost interest in the deal and, before the IPO, sold his stake (1%) in Alrosa.
The connection between Kerimov and Alrosa was discussed again after Zharkov’s arrival. The reason was the appointment of several people from Kerimov’s structures to significant positions in Alrosa. The sales division of the company was headed by former top manager of Uralkali Oleg Petrov, and Andrei Rodionov, a native of Nafta Moskva, became Zharkov’s financial adviser. It was Dmitry Rybolovlev who sold Uralkali to Kerimov. Zharkov claims that he met Kerimov when he was already the president of Alrosa, through the CEO of Polyus Gold, Pavel Grachev. According to him, Petrov was recommended by the current co-owner of Uralkali, Dmitry Mazepin, and he contacted Rodionov himself.
Kerimov is familiar not only with Zharkov, but, more importantly, with Trutnev. They met even before Trutnev became the presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District. Uralkali, owned by Rybolovlev and then Kerimov, is one of the largest taxpayers in the Perm region. At the same time, it was believed that Yuri Trutnev had an informal share in this company, the interests of which he lobbied for.
Kerimov became the owner of Uralkali in 2010. Trutnev then headed the Ministry of Natural Resources and the government commission to prevent the negative consequences of the disaster at the Uralkali mine. Thanks to the commission, Dmitry Rybolovlev and other leaders of Uralkali did not go to jail. After some time, Murad Kerimov became Trutnev’s adviser. This is the nephew of Suleiman Kerimov, says a former official of the Ministry of Natural Resources. In 2013, Murad Kerimov, following Trutnev, moved to the presidential administration, and then, when he was appointed plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District, he became his assistant. In 2016, Murad Kerimov was appointed Deputy Minister of Natural Resources. He took the place of Rinat Gizatulin, who became vice-president of Alrosa and is considered Trutnev’s creation. Close ties and appointments gave rise to market rumors about plans to merge Alrosa and Polyus Gold. But both companies subsequently denied negotiations.
Polyus claimed 4% of Luashe. But now the company has distanced itself from the project. Its prospects are unclear: the Ministry of Finance is wary of projects in Africa. And the relationship between Trutnev and Kerimov could have deteriorated. The reason is considered to be the fight for the Sukhoi Log gold deposit, which both companies lay claim to.
Kerimov’s influence on Alrosa is not the main one. Since the time of Alexei Kudrin, the Ministry of Finance has been closely monitoring everything that happens in the company, and representatives of the Yakut administration (the authorities of Yakutia and the uluses own a total of 33% of Alrosa) find fault with everything that seems to them “an attempt by other shareholders to pull the blanket over themselves.” Egor Borisov said that Kerimov does not influence strategic decision-making at Alrosa. “We clearly control this,” the head of Yakutia emphasized.
Battle of the Yakut Khans
There are a lot of Alrosas in Yakutia, says Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev. In houses, in maintaining infrastructure, in providing heat and work. “This is everything for us!” - admitted the head of Yakutia Egor Borisov in October at a press conference in Moscow.
In 2015, the company paid 43.3 billion rubles to the budget of Yakutia (77% of its tax and non-tax payments). Alrosa is also the largest employer (about 40 thousand employees) in the region. In 2015, Alrosa’s social investments amounted to 5.4 billion rubles. Of these, the company allocated 1.7 billion to maintain local infrastructure, and 2.9 billion to charity.
Under an agreement with the Yakut government, Alrosa annually transfers more than 500 million rubles to the Fund for Future Generations of Yakutia. Formally, these funds are spent on social infrastructure. In fact, the money is spent in an extremely non-transparent manner, note two sources close to the Yakut authorities. In 2011, the republic’s prosecutor’s office revealed that the foundation carried out commercial activities “not pursuing socially beneficial goals.” For example, in 2009–2010, the fund issued loans worth 700 million rubles to various companies. After the audit, the fund's management changed. But, apparently, the fund continued its commercial activities. So, at the end of 2015, the central hospital of the city of Mirny entered into a contract with him to purchase 35 apartments for 90 million rubles, according to data from the zakupki.gov portal.
Historically, the management located at Alrosa’s headquarters in Moscow controls the sale of diamonds, and purchases for the needs of its mining subsidiaries are “farmed out to the Yakuts.” An analysis of contracts of Alrosa structures showed that one of its largest contractors is Alexey Pavlov. Since 2015, companies affiliated with the entrepreneur have won more than fifty tenders worth about 4 billion rubles. The main customer for Pavlov’s structures is Alrosa’s subsidiary Almazy Anabara. Its former general director, Matvey Evseev, who led the company for almost 20 years, according to SPARK, in 2007 owned ADK LLC - now the largest contractor for Alrosa among Pavlov’s structures (orders for more than 2 billion rubles since 2015). Pavlov is a relative of Yevseev, says a source close to the Yakut authorities. Between Evseev and Pavlov, ADK LLC belonged to Olga Zemskova, its current director. Zemskova’s full namesake appears in documents for some purchases of Almazov Anabar as the head of the competitive procurement department. Another major contractor of Almazov Anabar is GRP-group LLC (since 2015, it has won three tenders totaling 4 billion rubles). Its owner, Dmitry Anatolyevich Gorshunov, acted in Omega-Orion LLP as a partner of a person with the same last name and initials as Evseev. The son of Evseev’s cousin, Mikhail Vitalievich Evseev, heads Almas LLC, which since 2015 has won more than 30 tenders of the same “Almazov Anabar” for 710 million rubles.
An internal audit revealed multiple violations at Almazy Anabara: interested party transactions, non-transparent purchases, and expenditure of funds. In the spring of 2016, Evseev left Almazy Anabar and moved to Alrosa with the status of vice president for non-core assets. Recently, Evseev left the company altogether.
According to sources, Evseev was let down by the fact that he “behaved like a khan” and did not work well with the like-minded Yegor Borisov. After Evseev’s departure, Almazy Anabar was headed by Pavel Marinichev, the former first deputy prime minister of Yakutia Galina Danchikova, whom Yegor Borisov called “his faithful comrade-in-arms.” Last fall, Danchikova became a State Duma deputy from Yakutia and deputy chairman of the strategic planning committee under the Alrosa supervisory board.
There have also been changes in Alrosa's procurement. A year ago, Zharkov introduced a new position of vice president for procurement and appointed Alexander Parshkov, a native of Rosneft and Gazprom, to it. In the year since Parshkov’s appointment, Alrosa’s largest suppliers included Gazprom’s subsidiary Gazenergoset Resurs, Rosneft and NG-Energo, a contractor for Gazprom (Alexey Miller) and Rosneft ( Igor Sechin).
Exchange fraudsters Trutnev
In the summer of 2016, the Federal Property Management Agency sold a 10.9% stake in Alrosa for 65 rubles, gaining just over 52 billion rubles. At the end of November, the company's capitalization was 655 billion rubles (revenue for the nine months of 2016 was 256 billion rubles, EBITDA was 150 billion rubles). A significant part of the state stake was bought by RDIF and its co-investors from Asia and the Middle East. Among Russian buyers, the main share came from non-state pension funds, but there were also family offices of large businessmen. The latter “did not dominate,” assured Deputy Finance Minister Moiseev. Kerimov was not among them, assure two federal officials and a person close to Alrosa.
Officials and organizers of the SPO unanimously insist that “the deal exceeded expectations.” For a budget, it’s unlikely: shortly before the placement, even Trutnev indicated that the price was at rock bottom. “The level of skepticism was high,” admits one of the organizers of the deal. According to him, at first even the Ministry of Finance was against it, although the money from the sale of Alrosa at such a low oil price is definitely not superfluous.
But investors were right. Upon purchase, they received a 3% discount to the market price and 50% of the profit under IFRS in the form of dividends. Three months after the SPO, the shares rose in price by more than a third; at the end of November, one Alrosa paper on the Moscow Exchange cost about 90 rubles. Quotes are rising on news about Alrosa's export prospects. In order to sell the stake at a higher price, it would be logical for Trutnev to organize the placement after all the legislative changes. But Trutnev's task was probably the opposite.
Cutting Pest
Alrosa was the main payer of the export duty and will benefit from its abolition. Moiseev estimates its size at 10–12 billion rubles. Alrosa is not able to sell any stones for export, so the remainder will go to the domestic market at lower prices, the Deputy Minister of Finance believes.
“Alrosa is destroying the entire cutting industry of the country,” says Oleg Khanukaev. “Alrosa’s task is to extract and sell,” says Maxim Shkadov, general director of the Smolensk Kristall plant. According to him, already in September, Alrosa raised selling prices for diamonds on the domestic market by 8%. Now the diamond cutting business may become unprofitable, because even before the abolition of export duties, the margin here did not exceed 1–2%. As a result, the most advantageous position will be for the Alrosa branch - the diamond cutting company ALROSA Diamonds. “Within a year they will have no competitors left on the Russian market,” says Khanukaev. Zharkov does not agree with this and cites the example of profitable Russian enterprises of the Indian KGK. True, they have a significant advantage over their Russian competitors, the head of Alrosa admits: they are part of an international group with their own sales channels.
Yuri Trutnev is a famous Russian statesman and public figure. Currently he holds the post of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. He is also the plenipotentiary representative of the head of state in the Far Eastern Federal District. He has held this position since 2013.
Why is Deputy Prime Minister Trutnev famous?
Before becoming the presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Far East, Yuri Trutnev served as assistant to the head of state. And even earlier he headed the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. He is an actual state councilor of the first class. Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party.
At the same time, he is actively involved in social activities. He is a member of the Union of Martial Arts, holding the post of its co-chairman.
Biography of the official
Yuri Trutnev was born in the Perm region in 1956. He was born in the small village of Polazna, which is located near the city of Molotov, which is what Perm was called in those years. His parents were involved in the oil industry by profession.
Their son decided to follow in their footsteps. After school, Yuri Trutnev entered the Perm Polytechnic Institute. He graduated from the mining faculty. Received the specialty of a mining engineer.
While still studying at the institute, I actively worked in the specialty that I studied. Undertook direct practical training, performing the duties of an assistant driller. Later he became an oil and gas production operator. He worked in companies such as Komineft and Polaznaneft.
After university
Immediately after graduating from the institute, Yuri Trutnev was assigned to the Perm Research and Design Institute, which specialized in the oil industry. Received the position of junior researcher. And he already led those who carried out direct drilling and mining.
Then I decided for myself that I would be closer to the political elite. In 1981 he joined the Komsomol. He took on quite a large social burden. In particular, he served as an instructor in the city committee of the Komsomol in his native Perm. He worked in this position until 1986.
Administrative career
In the late eighties he received a seat in the executive branch. Trutnev Yuri Petrovich, as his colleagues and subordinates now addressed him, became the head of the sports committee of the Perm Regional Executive Committee. His passion for combat sports also played a role in this appointment. In particular, kyokushinkai, which was just gaining popularity at that time.
Today he is co-chairman of the world union of this style of karate, founded in Japan in the mid-20th century.
Own business
During the years of perestroika, Yuri Petrovich Trutnev realized that the country was offering new challenges and he needed to take fate into his own hands. He left his job in the regional executive committee and decided to start his own business.
His first business was the Contact cooperative, which he opened using joint savings with friends. They began to actively develop and locally produce new and modern sports equipment. Mostly they managed to sell them to government organizations. So the channels for supplying goods were constant.
In 1990, he headed a new company, Ex Limited, which he founded on the basis of his cooperative. And already in 1996 he became president of the large company EKS International. Over the years, the business began to expand. In addition to exercise equipment, entrepreneurs began to sell used imported cars, supply real Swiss chocolate to the domestic market, and even organize tours of strongmen around the country’s cities.
Yuri Trutnev, whose biography was initially related to business, supplied Swiss Nestle chocolate to the Russian market together with Oleg Chirkunov, who later became the governor of the Perm Territory. At that time, Chirkunov worked at the Russian trade mission in Switzerland, helping domestic businesses establish relations with this European country. After Chirkunov returned from a business trip abroad to the Perm region, business partners founded the Semya chain of food supermarkets, which is still popular in Russia today.
Political career
In the early 90s, Trutnev realized that for successful business development it was necessary to start a political career. So, in 1994, Yuri Petrovich Trutnev won the elections to the regional legislative assembly. The position of a deputy allowed him to be on short terms with many officials. And not only solve citywide problems, but also issues related to the development of small and medium-sized businesses in general. In the legislative assembly, the hero of our article headed the committee on economic policy and taxes; the topic of finance was closest to him.
In 1996, Trutnev’s popularity was so high that he was able to confidently win the mayoral elections in Perm. None of his opponents could compete with him. The hero of our article was supported by 61% of voters.
In 2000, Trutnev won the gubernatorial elections. His main competitor was the current leader of the region, communist Gennady Igumnov. The turnout at the elections was quite high - almost half of the residents took part in the voting.
There were 6 names on the ballots, but it was clear that everything would be decided by the confrontation between the two candidates. That's how it happened. Pavel Anokhin, who took third place, received only 5.5% of the votes. Igumnov scored just under 35%, and Trutnev, with a score of 51.48%, won in the first round.
During the election race, he was actively supported by the local business community. In particular, the owner of Uralkali, Dmitry Rybolovlev, and the vice-president of Lukoil, Andrey Kuzyaev.
It was under Trutnev that the process of unification of regions began in Russia, and this also affected the Perm Territory. It included the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. In 2003, a referendum was held in which the majority of residents supported this decision.
Government Jobs
At the very end of his gubernatorial term, Trutnev received a tempting offer to move to Moscow. He took the chair of the Minister of Natural Resources in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov.
He worked in this position for eight years. In 2012, his place was taken by Actual State Councilor Second Class Sergei Donskoy.
Trutnev began working as an assistant to the President of Russia. His immediate responsibilities included supervising the State Council. That same year he took part in the elections to the State Duma. The popularity among Perm residents, which he gained back in the late 90s, and the media recognition at the all-Russian level, which his ministerial post provided him, helped him win a landslide victory. However, he decided not to go to the federal parliament, ceding his mandate to billionaire Anatoly Lomakin.
Plenipotentiary Representative to the Far Eastern Federal District
In 2013, the career of the presidential assistant, which Yuri Petrovich Trutnev treasured so much, ended. Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District - this was his new position. At the same time, he received the status of Deputy Prime Minister.
In the Far East, Victor Ishaev was replaced by Yuri Petrovich Trutnev. The Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative, who worked before Trutnev, was well known to residents of the Far East. Ishaev headed the Khabarovsk Territory for many years, several terms in a row. Trutnev was a new man, so at first many were wary of his appointment. After all, the plenipotentiary's tasks are important - to actually represent the interests of the president in the regions, to carry out state policy in remote areas, to supervise the work of local governors.
In his new post, the hero works openly and publicly. The reception office of Yuri Petrovich Trutnev is open in Khabarovsk on Sheronova Street, building 22. It is open five days a week - from Tuesday to Saturday. Often the presidential plenipotentiary representative himself receives visitors.
Family and hobbies
Trutnev has been interested in sports since childhood, especially martial arts. In his youth he also regularly took part in classic car racing competitions.
He achieved the greatest success in a form of karate - kyokushinkai. He is fifth dan. In 2005, he joined the leadership of the newly created domestic martial arts union. He holds this post together with Sergei Kiriyenko. In 2004, he stood at the origins of the Russian Kyokushinkai Association.
As he grew older, he continued his passion for auto racing. So, in the early 2000s, he could regularly be seen at the Russian Automobile Rally Championship and Cup. Yuri Petrovich Trutnev performed at the wheel of a Mitsubishi.
The politician has a large family. He is married and has five children. The children of Yuri Petrovich Trutnev work in different sectors of the economy. The greatest success has been achieved by his son Dmitry, who is a financial adviser to the Central Cooperative Bank and is on the board of directors. In total, the hero of our article has three sons and two daughters.
It is noteworthy that the official has repeatedly set a record for personal income among all members of the domestic government. He achieved such results in 2009 and 2012.
So, in 2009, he declared more than 155 million rubles, and three years later he reported 210 million earned.
August 3rd, 2011
The family of the environmental minister is destroying the ecology of the most beautiful places in the country
Yuri Petrovich Trutnev
Place of work: Russian government
Job title: With 2004. - Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Russia
Participation in business: IN 1988 . together with his partners, he created the Kontakt cooperative, which was engaged in the development and production of sports simulators. WITH 1990 . - General Director of the EKS Limited enterprise (Deputy General Director was Oleg Chirkunov), which was engaged in supplying products to Perm from abroad (in particular, Nestlé chocolates). How wrote the magazine "Profile", a significant role in Trutnev’s successes was played by his friendly relations with the local police authorities, primarily with the then deputy head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Perm Region and the future presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Ural Federal District, Peter Latyshev.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of Zarya Ural Bank. Exactly with this bank I could not Trutnev's company "EX Limited" will pay off the loan.
IN 1996. JSC E.K.S. was created on the basis of EKS Limited. International”, which united the enterprises of the EKS group, whose president was Yuri Trutnev.
On December 8, 1996, Trutnev won the election for mayor of Perm. The election team was formed one of the closest associates of the company "EX Limited". Moscow and Perm media called Trutnev’s election campaign aggressive and accused his team of violations, in particular force pressure employees of the company "EX Limited" against supporters of Trutnev's main opponent, the current mayor of the city, Vladimir Fil.
In October 2000 g . Trutnev stood as a candidate in the elections for governor of the Perm region, which he won in December. How claimed the media, support was provided by the largest businessmen of the region: the head of the Uralkali company Dmitry Rybolovlev and the general director of the LUKoil-Perm company Andrei Kuzyaev, who was also part of the initiative group for the nomination of the Perm mayor in the gubernatorial elections.
IN 2004 ., according to the official income statement, Trutnev’s average monthly income was $317,198. Vedomosti, published These data, with reference to a representative of the Ministry of Natural Resources, indicated that the minister annually receives money for shares of the Ex group of companies. He sold them in installments after becoming a government employee. IN 2004 . Trutnev received $3.5 million for Eks' papers, which amounted to 92 percent of his annual income. IN 2005 . the minister received the largest income among other members of the government, earning 211 million 403 thousand 810 rubles over the year. IN 2006 . personal content decreased by a third - to 133 million 605 thousand rubles. In 2008 Trutnev receivedalmost 370, in 2009 - 155 million rubles.
At the moment, there are several enterprises belonging to the EKS group: LLC E.K.S. International", LLC "Management Company "EX", LLC "Real Estate Management "EX", etc.
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities as of September 2010, LLC E.K.S. International is owned by Svetlana Gennadievna Kuzmich, Oleg Anatolyevich Chirkunov (governor of the Perm Territory), as well as the Swiss company Norpeksal Holding SA (76.42%). "THE EX. International is the founder of more than 50 Perm companies (mainly engaged in trading activities).
Impact on business: December 2008 . Minister of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev stood up for the Uralkali company, which belonged to his longtime friend Dmitry Rybolovlev. The company could be found guilty of an accident at one of its mines in Berezniki in 2006 . The accident resulted in a ground collapse. At the end of the same year, a special commission of Rostechnadzor decided that the man-made accident occurred for reasons beyond the control of Uralkali. However, in October 2008 . at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Sechin, it was decided solution on the creation of a new commission and the resumption of the investigation. IN 2009 the government determined the final amount that Uralkali will have to pay as compensation for the accident in Berezniki. In total, the company must transfer 7.8 billion rubles, of which Uralkali will donate 5 billion for the construction of a bypass railway around all sections of the Verkhnekamsk potash deposit - the total length 53 km.
Family:
Former (second) wife, Marina Lvovna Trutneva, master of sports in rhythmic gymnastics, chairman of the Perm Gymnastics Federation. Owns clothing store in Perm, member of the Anastasia charity society as of 2004
Son from second marriage Dmitry Yurievich Trutnev, businessman. In 2003-05 - merchant, in 2006-07. - Assistant to the General Director of the NP Institute of Corporate Development. WITH2007 . - financial advisor at the Central Cooperative Bank (Bulgaria). Is Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Insurance Company Itil (Kazan), JSCB "TatInvestBank"(Kazan). Both of these companies are owned by several Bulgarian citizens.
IN 2006 into ownership the son of the Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation Yuri Trutnev, 23-year-old Dmitry Trutnev, got a plot of land on picturesque bank of the Kama, in close proximity to the famous “holy spring” in Perm, consecrated and revered in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Life-Giving Spring” (Starye Vodniki microdistrict, Tantsorova Street, 10). By resolution of the head of the Perm city administration Arkady Katz No. 922 of June 7 2006 . Dmitry Trutnev was allowedconstruction of a 3-storey house with utility rooms, a closed parking lot and its own boiler room. However, it later turned out that the building design did not pass the state environmental assessment.
After a high-profile public scandal, Dmitry Trutnev stated in the media that he got rid of the site and was no longer related to this asset. According to discharge from the Unified State Register of Rights to Real Estate and Transactions with It as of July 16 2007 ., the copyright holder with the type of right “ownership” of the object on the street. Tantsorova, 10 is citizen Alexander-Bisman Vladimirovich Ross-Johnson. He was also listed as a representative of the Parma-Engineering company, indicated by the customer of the work during construction, which was led by Dmitry Trutnev.
Wife, Natalya Sergeevna Petrova. In November2006 . Perm media actively covered the construction of a residential building in the coastal protective zone of the Kama Reservoir in the Dobryansky district. It was indicated that the site was originally registered in the name of the wife of Minister of Natural Resources Yuri Trutnev, Natalya Petrova, and the construction site is periodically visited and controlled by the minister’s son, Dmitry Trutnev. The media noted that the distance from the water’s edge to Natalya Sergeevna Petrova’s house under construction is about 30 meters , which violates current legislation. Later the site was re-registeredto another individual.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. Russian politician. He was born, raised and began his political career in the Perm region. He was the mayor of Perm, governor of the Perm region. Since 2004 - Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation. In 2013, Yuri Trutnev was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District. Yuri Trutnev is interested in sports, auto racing, and hunting. He holds the 5th dan in Kyokushinkai karate, is co-chairman of the Russian Union of Martial Arts, chairman of the Presidium of the Kyokushin Association of Russia, co-chairman of the World Kyokushin Union.
Dossier
Born on March 1, 1956 in the village of Polazna, not far from Molotov (now Perm) in a family of oil workers.
Education and scientific activities
In 1978 Graduated from the Mining Faculty of the Perm Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Mining Engineer. While studying at the institute, he worked as an assistant driller, oil and gas production operator at NGDU Polaznaneft and Komineft. Starting from the fourth year, I received an increased scholarship.
In 1978 After graduating from the institute, he was assigned to the Perm Research and Design Institute of the Oil Industry. He worked as a junior researcher at PermNIPIneft.
In 1996 became a member of the university’s trustees and continues to participate in the life of the university to this day.
In 2016 The Academic Council of Perm State National Research University awarded Yuri Trutnev the title of honorary professor of Perm University.
Komsomol activity
In 1981–1986 held the position of instructor of the Perm City Committee of the Komsomol. His responsibilities included organizing youth rallies and student construction teams.
In 1986–1988 headed the Sports Committee of the Perm Regional Executive Committee.
Entrepreneurial activity
In 1988 Together with his partners, he created the Contact cooperative and came up with a program of demonstration sports performances for the city. Members of the cooperative invested the funds they earned in the development and production of sports equipment, which were subsequently supplied to educational institutions in the Perm region.
In 1990 became the general director of the EKS Limited company created on the basis of the cooperative. Subsequently, other enterprises of the EKS group appeared, including supplying imported goods: cars, medicines, Swiss Nestlé chocolate.
In 1996 became president of JSC "E. K.S. International", which united the companies of the EKS group. Together with Oleg Chirkunov, he owned the 7ya supermarket chain.
Political activity
In 1994 became a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Region and the Perm City Duma, headed the Committee on Economic Policy and Taxes.
In 1996–2000 was elected mayor of Perm, receiving 61 percent of the vote.
In 2000–2004 served as governor of the Perm region. In the first round of voting he defeated the incumbent governor Gennady Igumnov, receiving 51 percent of the vote. During Trutnev's governorship, the first process of merging regions in modern Russia began - the Perm region with the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug, and on December 7, 2003, a referendum on the merger was successfully held.
March 9, 2004 By decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed to the post of Minister of Natural Resources in the government of Mikhail Fradkov. In May 2004, after the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, who was elected for the next term, took office, he was again appointed to the post of Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.
In 2004–2012 Yuri Trutnev was the Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation in the government of Mikhail Fradkov. In May 2004, after the Russian President Vladimir Putin, elected for the next term, took office, he was reappointed to this post. Since 2008, his position began to be called “Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation.”
In 2012–2013 Trutnev was an assistant to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
May 22, 2012 appointed assistant to the President of the Russian Federation in connection with the early termination of powers of deputy Alexei Klimov. He lost his mandate as a deputy of the State Duma of the sixth convocation to billionaire Anatoly Lomakin, after which the Central Election Commission excluded Trutnev from the federal list of candidates from United Russia due to the fact that he had already twice refused a seat in the State Duma.
August 31, 2013 Yuri Trutnev was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District.
In 2018 The Far Eastern Federal District was changed: the Transbaikal Territory and the Republic of Buryatia were included in the district, and the center of the district was moved from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok.
December 11, 2018 was appointed head of the state commission for Arctic development.
Personal life
Yuri Trutnev is married for the third time and has five children.
Awards and titles
- Order of Honor (1998);
- Certificate of Honor from the Government of the Russian Federation (2006);
- Order of Honor (South Ossetia, 2009);
- P. A. Stolypin Medal, II degree (2011);
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2016).
Yuri Trutnev - Mayor of Perm, Governor of the Perm Territory. Head of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation. Council member "United Russia".
Childhood and youth of Trutnev Yuri Petrovich
The future statesman was born on March 1, 1956 in the Perm region, in the village of Polazne. The small town is located near the beautiful Kama Reservoir. It was there that his happy years of childhood and youth passed. He grew up in a not poor family; his parents worked as oil workers.
His father was in charge of the site and he was often called to work on weekends, holidays and even at night, because there were always accidents and breakdowns on the lines. The head of the family was not at home for 2-3 days, all the difficulties of housework fell on the shoulders of the mother. But the fact that the father did not complain or leave his job under any circumstances was reflected in the character of the future capitalist. He inherited his passion and determination in his profession from his parents. He graduated from the local village school, was an ordinary student and did not amaze everyone with his abilities and talents, then he entered the Perm Polytechnic Institute. He followed in the footsteps of his parents and also chose their profession and entered the faculty where they train future specialists in the oil industry.
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From the first to the third year, Yuri did not particularly like his future profession and studies; during these years he felt all the delights of student life, but in the fourth year he surprised everyone and worked hard and received a long-awaited increased scholarship.
In 1978, the young student graduated from university and received a diploma of higher education. Yuri Trutnev was a wise guy beyond his years; during his student life he decided to work in a new oil and gas organization "Polazneft", there he gained work experience and acquired a lot of skills and knowledge. In this department, he served as an assistant driller and gas and oil production operator.
Since he graduated from the fourth year with an increased scholarship, he was enrolled among the best students of the university. And the best student of the Perm Polytechnic Institute, Yuri Trutnev, was sent to the Perm Research Institute as a junior researcher.
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The beginning of the career and commercial activities of Yuri Trutnev
Yuri Petrovich began his career as a junior researcher at the Perm Research Institute. But the work quickly became boring for him, and he decided not to engage in scientific activities. He left the institute and refused graduate school, but his teachers and staff shared with the press that they expected a professorship from him. But Yuri considered that the position of instructor of the Komsomol city committee would be much more important for him and for society. His responsibilities included organizing all kinds of student fraternities, construction teams and youth rallies. Trutnev was delighted with this work and enjoyed coming up with something new for the students. This passion for work was inspired by his love for sports, wrestling, sambo, tourism and karate.
At the beginning of perestroika, Yuri Trutnev decided that he wanted to connect his life with the cooperative movement and this matter fascinated him very much. He became interested in how an organization could earn money itself and manage the money it earned. He set himself the goal of organizing his own cooperative or company. To do this, he left his job and decided to start a new business.
Most of all, his mother was worried about an incomprehensible and unknown matter; she did not understand how he could exchange a good position with a stable salary for a ridiculous decision. He and his companions created a small cooperative called “Contact”; it was located in a rented room on the ground floor of the sports committee’s territory.
They earned their first money easily; they came up with a program of sports performances and performed independently in small towns. The partners collected a considerable amount of money and donated it entirely to the development and installation of training complexes. After some time, quite a bit, good simulators were supplied to schools and boarding schools in the Perm region.
In the 1990s, the Contact company was replaced by the EKS Limited organization. She specialized in supplying food products to the region from abroad. Capital grew and business flourished. After some time, Yuri Trutnev opened a new company - Doctor EKS, which supplied imported medicines.
Yuri Petrovich loved his job very much and helped him develop in every possible way, but over time he decided that this was not the peak of his capabilities. I decided to try myself in a political career. He moved up the career ladder very quickly and at the beginning of his career he took a good place. Yuri Petrovich immediately took a place among a number of officials of the local district, where he became the head of the Committee on Economic Policy and Taxes. Already in 1996, Yuri Petrovich Trutnev was appointed Mayor of Perm. With the arrival of such an important position, things began to improve in the city and region, the people were very pleased with this representative of the authorities. Thanks to him, a tunnel was built under the Trans-Siberian Railway. This project has changed the transport situation in the city for the better.
Thanks to his good reputation, at the end of 2000, Yuri Petrovich became the governor of the Perm region. Under his leadership, the unification of the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug with the Perm region took place. And in 2003, a referendum gave consent to the unification of these two territories, and this is how the Perm Territory was formed.
Yuri Trutnev communicates with young people at the Islands forum
In 2004, the capitalist heading the Perm region was offered to become the head of the Ministry of Nature, instead of Vitaly Artyukhov, who had held this position for the last three years. Trutnev could not refuse and headed the Ministry of Nature of the Russian Federation until 2012. His first, important and serious task in this position was the formation of inspections of the Sakhalin-2 project, after which Gazprom became its controlling partner and shareholder, receiving 52% of the shares.
Already in 2012, Yuri Trutnev became the first assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. He was obliged to supervise the resource department and supervise the State Council. Already in August 2013, Yuri Petrovich was appointed to a new position - he became the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern District.
Family life of Yuri Trutnev
The government official has five children - two daughters and three sons. He is currently married for the third time. The second wife, Marina Lvovna Trutneva, is an athlete. She is an Honored Master of Sports in rhythmic gymnastics. Now she has a clothing store in Perm. Both of his sons, Dmitry and Alexander, were born from his second wife. The businessman married for the third time in 2006, to Natalya Sergeevna Petrova.
Yuri Trutnev now
From an early age he was interested in sports, but in recent years he became seriously interested in karate. He has the highest degree of wrestling - fifth dan, and since 2005 he has become the chairman of the Union of Martial Arts of the Russian Federation. And since 2011 - co-chairman and one of the organizers of the World Kyokushin Union. He is also an avid extreme sports enthusiast and racing driver.
Governor of the Perm Territory, thanks to whom the region and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug united. Former Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation. Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation in the Far East.
In 1978 he graduated from the Perm Polytechnic Institute.
